On 13/06/2006 5:08 PM, John Machin wrote: > On 13/06/2006 4:11 PM, Girish Sahani wrote: > [snip] >> instance = ti2(k) >> tiNew = ti1.append(instance) > > ti2 is quacking "function" but ti1 is quacking "list". > > Possibilities: > (1) You meant to type ti2[k] ... and this section of code has not yet > been executed, and would have featured as episode N+1 had morbid > curiosity not led me to read further. > (2) You have the weirdest system of choosing names that I have seen for > decades. > (3) Both of the above. >
Episode N+2: tiNew = ti1.append(instance) doesn't do what you think it does: >>> foo = [9, 8, 7] >>> bar = 'xyz' >>> bar = foo.append(42) >>> foo [9, 8, 7, 42] >>> repr(bar) 'None' >>> Cheers, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list